DVD Movie Backup Freeware: Copy Movie DVD to Computer

Overview of DVDSmith Movie Backup

DVDSmith Movie Backup is freeware that will circumvent the copy-protection schemes used on commercial DVDs and enable you to make copies of store-bought DVDs.

DVDSmith Movie Backup is software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.

DVDSmith Movie Backup can make perfect-quality backup copies of all your DVD movies using your own computer hard disk. It can keep the same sound & video quality when you backup your DVD movies with all the special features, menus, subtitles, and languages included. Within a few clicks of your mouse, your favorite DVD has been cloned and will play on your computer just like the original.

The output from DVDSmith Movie Backup can be saved as files on your hard drive, which you can then burn with any burning software tools.

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History of DVD Copy/Backup Software :

The ability to create copies of the media you've purchased for personal use is a long-accepted facet of the fair-use doctrine in U.S. copyright law. However, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) states that it's illegal to break the CSS copy-protection mechanism employed by most commercial DVD movies.

Before February 2004, 321 Studios' hugely popular line of DVD-copying products, including DVD X Copy, DVD X Copy Xpress, and DVD Copy Plus, gave consumers the power to make backup copies of DVDs--even those with copy protection. But when a San Francisco federal judge ruled that 321 Studios' products were illegal because they circumvented commercial DVDs' antipiracy technology, the party was over. Since then, 321 Studios has released new, ripper-free versions of its line of DVD copying apps, but these programs are considerably less potent and cannot copy commercial DVDs.

Now that 321 Studios' line of products can no longer copy protected DVDs, they join a competitive field of mainstream disc-copying programs that can duplicate unprotected DVDs--your own home movies, for example. Furthermore, there are a handful of inexpensive, full-featured suites that feature disc-copying components (again, of non-copy-protected discs).

DVD to VOB Converter

A VOB file (Video Object) is a container format contained in DVD-Video media. VOB is based on MPEG-2 program stream format, but with additional limitations and specifications in the private streams. It contains the actual Video, Audio, Subtitle, and Menu contents in stream form.

VOB files will play using MPlayer, VLC media player, and more platform specific players.

In order to burn the VOB files to a DVD±R disc, other standard DVD-Video files are needed as well, including IFO and BUP files. The burning is easily done using software like K3b, Nero or Roxio Toast.

Types of DVD Movie Discs.

• DVD-5: DVD-5 is an acronym that means a DVD disc that is one-sided single-layer disc and can contain upto 4.38 gigabytes of data on it.
• DVD-9: One form of DVD discs that means a single-sided dual-layer DVD disc. DVD-9 can hold approximately 7.95 gigabytes of data.
• DVD±R: Two recordable DVD formats allow single-layer data to be stored on each side of the disc -- in other words, one side of the disc can hold upto 4.38 gigabytes of information. Both DVD formats are write-once formats, and can be read with most stand-alone DVD players and with virtually all DVD-ROM drives, though DVD+R is technically slightly more advanced than DVD-R.
• DVD±RW: Two recordable DVD formats allow single-layer data to be stored on each side of the disc -- in other words, one side of the disc can hold upto 4.38 gigabytes of information. Both DVD formats can be read with most stand-alone DVD players and with virtually all DVD-ROM drives, though DVD+RW is technically slightly more advanced than DVD-RW.
• DVD-R DL: Known as DVD-R9, this is blank DVD media that uses Dual Layer technology. It can hold up to twice the capacity of a single layer DVD-R.
• DVD+R DL: DVD+R DL is the dual layer version of DVD+R format. It's main difference to the DVD+R is that it can store upto 8.5 gigabytes on one disc side, unlike DVD+R which can only hold the same amount of data that a single layer disc can, appx. 4.38 gigabytes. This means basically that every single one-sided movie disc ever released can be stored to one DVD+R DL disc without compression or removing anything from the original disc.
• DVD-RAM: DVD-RAM (DVD-Random Access Memory) media are used in computers as well as camcorders and personal video recorders. Compared with other writeable DVDs, DVD-RAM is more closely related to hard disk technology, as it has concentric tracks instead of one long spiral track.